FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC LAW C

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-925685-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 951 g

Offers the long-awaited statement of a distinctive approach to public law integrating history, philosophy, and political theory
Presents provocative arguments against central orthodoxies in current public law theory, such as the role of public law in limiting government power
Draws on the rich constitutional theory found in French and German literature, providing a European perspective

Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying ist essential character, explaining ist particular modes of operation, and specifying ist unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence of the secularization, rationalization and positivization of the medieval idea of fundamental law. Formed as a result of the changes that give birth to the modern state, public law establishes the authority and legitimacy of modern governmental ordering.

Public law today is a universal phenomenon, but ist origins are European. Part I of the book examines the conditions of ist formation, showing how much the concept borrowed from the refined debates of medieval jurists. Part II then examines the nature of public law. Drawing on a line of juristic inquiry that developed from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries-extending from Bodin, Althusius, Lipsius, Grotius, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke and Pufendorf to the later works of Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Smith and Hegel-it presents an account of public law as a special type of political reason.

The remaining three Parts unpack the core elements of this concept: state, constitution, and government. By taking this broad approach to the subject, Professor Loughlin shows how, rather than being viewed as a limitation on power, law is better conceived as a means by which public power is generated. And by explaining the way that these core elements of state, constitution, and government were shaped respectively by the technological, bourgeois, and disciplinary revolutions of the sixteenth century through to the nineteenth century, he reveals a concept of public law of considerable ambiguity, complexity and resilience.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and academics in public law and political theory. Barristers and judges specializing in public law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loughlin

Loughlin, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rediscovering Public Law
Part I: Origins
1: Medieval Origins
2: The Birth of Public Law
Part II: Formation
3: The Architecture of Public Law
4: The Science of Political Right: I
5: The Science of Political Right: II
6: Political Jurisprudence
Part III: State
7: The Concept of the State
8: The Constitution of the State
9: State Formation
Part IV: Constitution
10: The Constitutional Contract
11: Rechtsstaat, Rule of Law, L'Etat de droit
12: Constitutional Rights
Part V: Government
13: The Prerogatives of Government
14: Potentia
15: The New Architecture of Public Law

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law, London School of Economics and Political Science